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and well-managed farms, as well as by the provision of all 
requisite accommodation. The total amount of Prizes offered 
by the Local Committee is over 2400/., and by the Society over 
3600/., making a total of upwards of G000/. 
The Prizes for Farms have been divided into three sections, 
namely : — Arable Farms, Dairy or Stock Farms (the area for 
these sections including the counties of Lancaster, Chester, 
Denbigh, and Flint), and farms in the Isle of Man. These 
sections have been sub-divided into eight classes, and forty-five 
entries have been received in seven of them, as follows : — 
Class. Entries. 
1. Arable Farm over 150 acres 10 
2. Ditto between 80 and 150 acres 4 
3. Ditto between 40 and 80 acres 4 
4. Dairy or Stock Farm, not less than 200 acres . . . . 8 
5. Ditto between 100 and 200 acres .. 12 
<i. Ditto between 50 and 100 acres . . . . 4 
7. Isle of Man Farm, 70 acres or upwards 2 
8. Ditto between 25 and 70 acres 1 
Total 45 
No Prizes for special classes of Implements will be offered for 
competition in connection with the Liverpool Meeting ; but ten 
Silver Medals will be offered for New Inventions, and the Gold 
Medal of the Society will be again offered for an efficient Sheaf- 
binder, whether attached to a reaping-machine or otherwise. 
The Council have added the following clause to the existing 
rule in the Implement Prize-sheet relating to protests : — ■ 
" Every protest against an Implement, on the ground of an 
infringement of Patent-right, shall be accompanied by a deposit 
of 25/., which shall be returned in the event of the protest or 
action at law being decided in favour of the person lodging the 
protest ; but otherwise the said sum of 25/. shall be forfeited to 
the Society." 
The Council have altered the rule relating to the Pedigree of 
Shorthorns, so as to read as follows : — " Every animal entered 
in the Shorthorn Classes must be certified by the Exhibitor 
to be entered, or to be eligible to be entered, in Coates's Herd- 
Book." 
The Council have resolved that the experiment of opening 
the Exhibition on Wednesday, which was so successful at 
Birmingham this year, shall be repeated next year at Liverpool ; 
and they have therefore decided that the Show shall commence 
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